The reason that John Wayne has his enormous reputation is because his name became synonymous with the Western genre. Combined with his 'partnership' spanning decades with the incredibly talented director John Ford, movies such as Stagecoach, Rio Grande and The Searchers came to define the genre.
The really early stuff in particular (like Stagecoach) is amazing. These guys created epic Westerns with horse stunts that still put a lot of current stuff to shame.
Without John Wayne and John Ford, the entire action genre would be incredibly miserable (as it spawned from the western), and those Clint Eastwood movies we all know and love (Dollars Trilogy in particular) wouldn't have come around either, as Sergio Leone (director of all the Spaghetti Westerns) would have had no source material to pay homage to.
As such, he is very important (as are his movies)
edit - seems weird that I'm from Australia and love him and tonnes of you guys (who I assume are American) barely know him?
@kid_A - he died about 10 years after the movie was released dude? Certainly, people probably favoured him for the award as he had done many fantastic movies previously without luck, but it certainly wasn't out of a respect for him passing away.
Yeah, some of his movies are awesome. I totally grew up watching John Wayne westerns, and it was good times. I never knew anything about him as a person, but seriously, since when are actors/celebrities exemplary role models? He's fun to watch.
So I am guessing that no one hear knows his birthday. Also I dont know if anyone knows this but the guy that played Tommy Gunn in Rocky V is his nephew.
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I am finding it hard to grasp that there are people who have never heard of John Wayne...seriously? That said, yeah, he overacts, and it's all cheesy, but that's the way movies used to be. People are much better actors these days.
I am finding it hard to grasp that there are people who have never heard of John Wayne...seriously? That said, yeah, he overacts, and it's all cheesy, but that's the way movies used to be. People are much better actors these days.
I definitely wouldn't say that's true. Acting is different now, but it's far from "better."
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I'm not a John Wayne fan, or a big country western fan either, but I LOVE Once Upon A Time In The West. Charles Bronson + Henry Fonda + Sergio Leone + iconic harmonica sounds = EPIC. Wait...who were we talking about again?
You know the sad thing is, there's even less of a chance of anyone in this thread knowing who they are, seeing as most don't even know who John Wayne is.
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I too never saw what was so great about John Wayne. He's just another actor who filled a role and got paid for it. Of course, maybe my point of view has something to do with me not being overly fond of westerns. I never see movies based on who's in them, I see movies based on what they're about.
Hatari is his best movie IMO seen it a million times great cast, that said I'm not a fan or westerns either so I have not seen very many John Wayne movies.
You know the sad thing is, there's even less of a chance of anyone in this thread knowing who they are, seeing as most don't even know who John Wayne is.
I know! It's a crime. But I guess that's the way it goes, as time goes by...
My question is why do people like Chuck Norris so much?
It has become a meme, but it originally sprang from watching his movies. Try that. You could watch almost any two and you should see a pattern.
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